Parking Management Device for Automated Exit Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

In automated valet parking systems, users or administrators often struggle to perform appropriate operations due to varying user actions and facility conditions, leading to inefficiencies in vehicle exit processing.

Innovation Solution

A management device that acquires and classifies requests for automated exit processing, prioritizing permitted users and adjusting operations based on congestion levels, user desire levels, and position information to optimize vehicle exit procedures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automated exit processing is performed for all users without classification, then processing speed is improved, but facility rules compliance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevehicle exit processing speedVSAvoidfacility rules compliance

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments users into two categories: first users (permitted to use the specific parking lot) and second users (not permitted). The management device classifies requests based on user identification information and applies different processing rules to each segment, allowing efficient automated processing while maintaining rule compliance through differentiated handling.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If automated exit processing is continuously executed for multiple vehicles, then throughput is improved, but boarding area congestion worsens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevehicle exit throughputVSAvoidboarding area congestion

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The management device monitors the boarding area congestion level in real-time and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust the automated exit processing. When congestion exceeds a threshold, the device suspends continuous processing; when congestion is low, it resumes or accelerates processing, thereby optimizing throughput while preventing overcrowding.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If priority processing is given to first users, then facility rules compliance is improved, but second user satisfaction deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefacility rules complianceVSAvoiduser satisfaction

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The management device provides advance notification to second users about their request status and expected waiting time before priority processing occurs. This preliminary information allows second users to plan accordingly and reduces perceived dissatisfaction, while still maintaining the necessary priority structure for first users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11302194B2Management device, management method, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2022.04.12 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD

AI summary

A management device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a plurality of requests for automated exit processing, a classifier configured to classify the requests into first requests of first users who are permitted to use a specific parking space and second requests of second users who are not permitted to use the specific parking space, and an instructor configured to cause vehicles associated with terminal devices which are transmission sources of the first requests to perform automated exit processing such that automated exit processing according to the first requests is continuously executed, or to cause vehicles associated with terminal devices which are transmission sources of the second requests to perform automated exit processing such that automated exit processing according to the second requests is continuously executed, on the basis of a result of the classification.